Component based shape retrieval using differential profiles

  • Authors:
  • Lei Ding;Mikhail Belkin

  • Affiliations:
  • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA;The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

  • Venue:
  • MIR '08 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international conference on Multimedia information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the use of differential profiles, which are computed from 2D shapes smoothed with Gaussian functions, as the shape features for building a shape retrieval system. We build a global shape component dictionary from all the shape descriptors collected from shapes available in a database and then represent each shape as a probabilistic mixture of elements from such a dictionary. Finally, shape retrieval from a given database is simply done by comparing the mixing coefficients of the model of a query shape and those of known shapes. Our retrieval experiments are done on both object contour and line drawing collections and show promising results.